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Downs, Jim, 1973-
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Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History.
Gay rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Gays -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Gays -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Downs, Jim, 1973-
Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History.
Gay rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Gays -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Gays -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Stand by me : the forgotten
history
of gay liberation / Jim Downs.
by
Downs, Jim, 1973-
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Call #:
306.766 D751s
Subjects
Gay liberation movement
--
United
States
--
History
.
Gay rights
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Gays
--
Political activity
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Gays
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
ISBN:
9780465032709 (hc.)
Description:
vii, 261 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The largest massacre of gay people in American
history
--
The gay religious movement
--
The biography of a bookstore
--
Gay American
history
--
The body politic
--
"Prison sounds"
--
Body language.
Summary:
"Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the
history
of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph--both political and sexual--before the AIDS crisis in the subsequent decade, which, in the view of many, exposed the problems inherent in the so-called "gay lifestyle". Historian Jim Downs rewrites the
history
of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records at LGBT community centers in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, Downs tells moving, revelatory stories of gay people who stood together--as friends, fellow believers, and colleagues--to create a sense of community among people who felt alienated from mainstream American life. As Downs shows, gay people found one another in the Metropolitan Community Church, a nationwide gay religious group; in the pages of the Body Politic, a newspaper that encouraged its readers to think of their sexuality as a political identity; at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore, the hub of gay literary life in New York City; and at theaters putting on "Gay American
History
," a play that brought to the surface the enduring problem of gay oppression. These and many other achievements would be largely forgotten after the arrival in the early 1980s of HIV/AIDS, which allowed critics to claim that sex was the defining feature of gay liberation. This reductive narrative set back the cause of gay rights and has shaped the identities of gay people for decades"--Provided by publisher.
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